The Centre for Business Innovation creates connected communities. These include:
- Consortia of blue chip companies, government departments and universities working together on fast moving areas of business process or technology
- Connected Communities of individuals in the worlds leading clusters

Friday, 9 February 2018

We are delighted to publish the 2018 Centre for Business Innovation Briefing which can be downloaded here. Read about our achievements in 2017 and ambitious plans for 2018 as we pursue our Blue Ocean strategy world wide. Our mission remains to 'Create Collaborative Communities' around fast moving areas of technology or business process. Come and join us!

Monday, 29 January 2018

Now in its 9th year the Microfluidics consortium continues to grow. We now operate equally across North America and Europe delivering 3 meetings on each continent per year.

We have created 'cadet' communities on the East Coast (FluidicMEMs) and on the West Coast (Bay Area Microfluidics Network) to support our mission which remains 'To grow the market for Microfluidics enabled products and services.

This week we are meeting in San Jose hosted by Labcyte, Molecular Devices and WL Gore working with expert witnesses from UC Riverside, Stanford, Microsoft and beyond as well as hearing "microfluidics hotseat" pitches from earlystage companies looking for support.

Friday, 27 October 2017

A capacity crowd of corporate venturers, lab leaders and innovators came together in Paris to talk about all things ‘working with/partnering with small companies and start-ups.

Nissan Innovation lab being perfect hosts and kindly offering us all a chance to interact with their latest incubatees.

With the calibre of attendees we had, it is easy to see why Jean-Francois from NUMA told us that corporate venturing has doubled in the last 3 years, with over $83.5bn invested and now accounts for 20% of all Venture Capital invested.

Monday, 9 October 2017

Hosted by Nissan Innovation Lab in Paris, on 17/18th October we are welcoming a select group of corporates who are innovating in partnership with SMEs and Start-ups - Incubators, Accelerators, Partnerships and Equity Investments.Attendance has doubled since our July event, with Nissan, NXP, Telefonica, Geovation, Belron being joined by BASF, Veissmann, Lloyds Bank, Eurapco and Societe Generale.Our key focus is creating content that adds value to our members - though our main job is usually keeping the meeting to time! We are proud to say this event looks like a doozy:

Two workshops on the key themes: Cultural Clashes and Impacts of Investment, being supported by:

Sunday, 1 October 2017

Walgreens Boots Alliance will be hosting the Social Media for Business Consortium at its marketing HQ near Kings Cross London on Oct 25/26.

This consortium works on best practise leveraging social and adjacent media in new ways. It funds research by the Department of Psychometrics at the Judge Business School in return for access to social profiling tools which members test and compare experiences with.

The consortium also has interests in : healthcare applications, new technology for UX and China

Other members of the consortium include: Siemens, Swiss Re, ghd, NHS ++

The Corporate Venturing Leadership Forum will be hosted by Nissan at their Paris Innovation Centre on Oct 17 and 18.

This group of blue chips is working on best practises in outreach to innovation. It is particularly interested in accelerators, incubators and competitions at outreach processes. Its focus in Europe and Far East.

The Consortium which includes Nissan (F/UK), Jaguar Land Rover(UK,I), Valeo(F), NXP(NL/D), BASF(D), Viessmann(D), Belron(UK), Ordnance Survey(UK) is now starting to expand beyond its 'automotive' roots into adjacent verticals.